"The ride’s enormous slide sucks riders through a 132-foot long tunnel and at 35 feet per second, drops them 75 feet
and into a six-story funnel. About 5,500 gallons of water tosses riders back and forth in the funnel (that little yellow blob is actually a raft with FOUR people riding in it!)
before dumping them into a waiting catch pool." Per The Orange Register.
1) I'd have to wear a bathing suit,
2) I'm afraid of water, and
3) I'd have to weigh in before entering the ride. Granted I'd weigh in as a GROUP. The weight total doesn't show up - only three different colored lights: The red light means a group is too heavy. A yellow light means a group of up to four is under 700 pounds, light enough for one of the ride’s four-seat rafts. A green light means a group is under 400 pounds and can ride a two-seater. Riders are not allowed to go solo.
Only the ride operators will see the lights. No where did I read what they do if the group is too heavy. Banish them to the end of the line? Put them in a dungeon and starve them till they're the correct weight? Sacrifice one of the group members? What happens, exactly?
Maybe they get sucked up a pipe like Augustus Gloop in Willy Wonka and seranaded by Oompa Loompas!
ReplyDeleteI probably would have gone on that ride when I was a kid but no way, today!
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hmm...this i might need to try...
ReplyDeleteas far as what they do...all i know is it would be uncomfortable.
Im with ya on this one...no way in hell, no way at all.... :)
ReplyDeleteI'd be setting off those lights for sure!
ReplyDeletenot sure if that's scary, fun or both...
ReplyDeleteYeah, no. Uh uh. Maybe you get voted off the ride aka Survivor if the red light goes off?
ReplyDeleteNo Freakin' Way!!! That is just wrong!
ReplyDeleteI would pee myself if I went on that, and scream all the way. And the weigh-in ........... no, I would go back down the line.
ReplyDeleteAnd people don't get hurt on this ride? Would a heart attack qualify as injury? Who dreams up these things anyway? This is one adventure we will avoid.
ReplyDeleteJust looking down that huge Willy Wonka colored tunnel lets me know I'd never make it even if I was skinny and gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteIt does look like fun, though!
ReplyDeleteI love Knotts, but I have never been to there water park.
ReplyDeleteThat slide makes me REALLY want to try it though.
Perhaps a dumb question - but why can't a person go down this thing solo? Not that I'd want to...
ReplyDeleteAre they afraid that a large group would clog the funnel?
ReplyDeleteSounds like they are racist against fat people. And big groups.
ReplyDeleteThey should get non-racist rafts.
i think that the over 700 pound thing and the "solo" thing would have to do with how the raft handled in the thing. might fly too high or not fly enough to get it through the system.
ReplyDeletelooks like fun.
for someone else.
not me.
I'm with you on this!
ReplyDeleteDo not pass up this opportunity. Try it and you can get an idea about how my job makes me feel every day.
ReplyDeleteLooks like fun to me...or scary. I really don't know.
ReplyDeleteB xx
Reason 4) It would give you a giant wedgie. I know (from the one at Disney World).
ReplyDeleteI cannot believe how ginormous that thing is! I didn't get it, until I saw the FOUR people on a RAFT and saw the scale. Yikes.
If you don't pass under the weight limit, they take you where they take the kids who are too short for the roller coaster: to the Fun House. Not so bad!
I think it's the six-story funnel that makes me a little weary. Notice they don't show a clear photo of the giant mixing bowl, I mean catch pool.
ReplyDeleteThat should be wary, not weary! I really need to proof a little better before posting.
ReplyDeleteOH HECK NO!! I went in one of those tube things and totally remembered as I began to slide down the mouth of that thing, I had claustrobia and promptly started screaming at the top of my lungs! It swished me around back and forth and upside down (I felt like I was in a washing machine) and then spit me out at (what felt like) 100 mph UPSIDE DOWN! I pawed toward what I thought was the surface (keeping my eyes closed of course) and scraped my knee on the bottom! NO THANKS!!!
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